Despite Solr's many capabilities the product does not include the
ability to perform semantic search in your files. For example, it does
not let you perform queries or reasoning over the objects that are
discovered in a document via Entity Extraction. For that you need to
marry Solr with an RDF Database to create intelligent text
documents. Several of our SemTech customer projects have found this
augmentation of Solr with RDF to be a key feature for creating unique
capabilities within their product offering.

In our webcast we'll show you some demos of applications that use
Solr and an RDF Database to reason over text objects. We'll also
provide a short tutorial on how to keep Solr in sync with the RDF
Database.

AllegroGraph now contains an interface to the Solr search engine
for use when creating free text indexes (but users must get and
install Solr). See Solr Text
Indices for the details. AllegroGraph native free-text indexing is
described in Free-text
Indices.

See all of the new version 4.5 features in the AllegroGraph
product description here.

Whether your most pressing issues are strategic, tactical, or, more
likely, a complex combination of both, you will benefit from this unique
opportunity to explore how semantic solutions and linked data are
being embraced throughout companies across a diverse range of
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The E&P Information Management Association (EPIM) launched EPIM
ReportingHub (ERH), an interesting semantic technology project in the
field of oil and gas. According to the project website, ERH is a
very flexible knowledgebase for receiving, validating (using NPD's
Fact Pages and PCA RDL), storing, analysing, and transmitting
reports. The operators shall send XML schemas for DDR, DPR and MPR to
ERH and ERH sends DDR and MPR as XML schemas to the NPD/PSA and all
three reports as PDF to EPIM's License2Share (L2S). The partners may
download all three reports and/or any data from one or more reports
through flexible queries. Some parts of ERH will be in operation
already in November 2011 and the rest as soon as the authorities and
the industry are ready for it. ERH is owned and operated by EPIM.

Intel - Big Memory, Big Data, and the
Semantic Web. "Techniques like MapReduce and NoSQL products based on
them are fine for some problems," said Mitch Shults, Mission-Critical
Segment Strategist, Intel Data Center Group. "To achieve high
performance against meaningful amounts of triplestore data, however,
you just can't afford to be traipsing all over the network to pull
things together. This result demonstrates the incredible value that
affordable large-scale, big-memory server platforms built around the
Intel Xeon E7 server platform can deliver for next-generation
workloads like triple stores." For additional information, see here.

Semanticweb.com: What One Trillion Means for the Semantic
Web. Mitchell Shults commented on the significance of Franz's recent
success loading one trillion triplestores. Shults writes, Triplestores
are perfect for making sense out of extremely complex data. However, a
triplestore is only useful if massive quantities of information can be
loaded, updated and effectively queried in a reasonable amount of
time. That is why Franz's Technology announcement is so
interesting. Read the rest of the article here.

Amdocs - "Semantics - the B2C Game Changer" (Video):
Bill Guinn, CTO Product Enablers, Amdocs Product Business Unit,
delivered a keynote at the 2011 Semantic Technology Conference in San
Francisco. His talk was one of the highlights for anyone interested in
how Semantic Technology can be used in enterprise systems. Watch the
video here.

KRSTE.my (Knowledge Resource for Science and
Technology Excellence, Malaysia) is an initiative, based on
AllegroGraph, by MOSTI and spearheaded by MASTIC to address science
and technology issues and challenges faced by the community, the
ministry and the country. KRSTE.my is designed to be a Single Point
Access Facilities (SPAF) providing intelligent collaborative knowledge
management and learning services platform on Science and Technology
and Innovation. More info
here.

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